Pioneers knock off Northern Lebanon, remain alone in 1st in Section 3
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
If this is beginning to sound like a broken record, it should.
Lampeter-Strasburg won another girls’ basketball game on Monday night – the Pioneers’ 11th victory in a row.
Knowing a loss would slip them back into a first-place tie, L-S took care of […]

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Pioneers’ coach chats about his team’s 10-game winning tear

The hottest girls’ basketball team in the Lancaster-Lebanon League at the moment is Lampeter-Strasburg.
The Pioneers have won 10 games in a row, and will bring a 5-0 league record into their home game against Northern Lebanon on Monday night.
L-S won this season’s first really, really big showdown […]

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 Lancaster Mennonite, Lebanon Catholic in latest state rankings. Click here for the Harrisburg Patriot-News’ updated state girls’ basketball rankings
News, notes, tidbits, factoids and anything and everything you’d ever want to know about L-L League girls’ basketball, as the calendar shifts to (gulp) 2009 …
I’ll begin this notebook the same way I opened the last two – […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Fresh off the presses … your updated L-L League scoring and 3-point-shooting leaders, through games of Saturday, Jan. 3.
SCORING
<Minimum 8 games played>
Nicky Hess, Donegal – 11 games, 250 points, 22.7
Dani Artman, Manheim Central – 9 games, 186 points, 20.7
Katelyn Vanderhoff, Lancaster Mennonite – 10 games, 191 points, 19.1
Kala Yoders, Elco – 8 games, […]

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It’s the first Reinhart’s Rankings for 2009 … anyone else as jacked as I am?
Before I go any further, I must reiterate how excellent the Lampeter-Strasburg at Donegal game was last Friday. That game got some major hype, and I thought it lived up to the billing – even though the final score (L-S 69, […]

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Pioneers win Round 1, top Indians 69-50 for first place in Section 3
Click here to read a replay of my LIVE BLOG from the L-S vs. Donegal game 
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
For a game with an otherwise lopsided 69-50 final score, this one sure lived up to the hype.
It was billed as an early season L-L League Super Bowl of […]

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Our handy dandy new LIVE BLOG feature on the L-L Leauge Insider at lancsports.com went over quite well during football season.
And toward the end of football season, the fine folks leaving comments during the football games were asking when we were going to start blogging live from basketball games.
Now.
In the debut of L-L League Insider […]

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Pioneers (4-0, 9-1) and Indians (4-0, 10-0) will square off Friday in Mount Joy
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
It was not the prettiest basketball game ever contested – unless you like plenty of stops and starts, stalling, turnovers and fouls.
If you like those things, then you would have loved Lampeter-Strasburg’s herky-jerky 49-30 win over Ephrata in the championship […]

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Lebanon Catholic holds off Penn Manor 49-41; Lebanon edges Exeter 49-44 
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
LEBANON – It will be an all-Lebanon County final in the championship game of the Lebanon Holiday Tournament.
Lebanon Catholic and host Lebanon both earned hold-them-off-at-the-wire victories Monday night in first-round games.
In the opener, Lebanon Catholic never trailed, but had to fend off Penn […]

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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year’s to you all.
Some L-L League girls’ basketball news and notes for you …
WHAT’S ON TAP – Another busy week on the hardwood. Monday night I’ll be at Lebanon for the Cedars’ holiday tournament, featuring Penn Manor against Lebanon Catholic in the opener and Lebanon against Exeter in the nightcap. […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Here are your Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ basketball scoring and 3-point-shooting leaders through games of Saturday, December 27 …
SCORING
<Minimum 6 games played)
Dani Artman, Manheim Central – 6 games, 141 points, 23.5
Nicky Hess, Donegal – 8 games, 186 points, 23.3
Katelyn Vanderhoff, Lancaster Mennonite – 9 games, 173 points, 19.2
Kala Yoders, Elco – 7 games, 126 […]

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Reinhart’s Rankings for the week straddling Christmas and New Year’s.
Read ‘em and weep …
1. Donegal (4-0 league, 8-0 overall; last week: 1st) – Break up the Indians, who continue to amaze. Donegal continues to cruise along as the lone unbeaten girls’ team in the L-L League. Remained that way with a clutch 64-53 win over […]

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Columbia routs Pottstown, snaps 0-9 skid and earns 1st win this season in Warwick Holiday Tournament consolation game
Columbia coach Lisa Tomsheck was heading for the celebratory locker room Saturday night when she passed a familiar face in a hallway deep inside Warwick’s gymnasium.
“Finally,” she said, flashing a smile. “It’s about time.”
It took 10 games, but […]

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Cougars’ beat 4th-quarter buzzer to force OT, knock off host Warriors in the Warwick Holiday Tournament finale
Buzzer beaters are always fun.
Unless you’re on the other side.
Warwick was on the other side Saturday night.
The Warriors were in cruise control against pesky Palmyra in the championship game of the Warwick Holiday Tournament in Lititz. Warwick led 24-16 […]

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West York 65, Lancaster Catholic 49
Oxford 43, Hempfield 40 (2-OT)
Warwick 65, Columbia 27
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
‘Tis the season … for holiday girls’ basketball tournaments.
And that’s where I spent my Friday, first in the afternoon over at Hempfield, where the host Black Knights and Lancaster Catholic both went down in first-round games in the Hempfield Holiday Tournament.
Catholic […]

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Blazers top Crusaders, force a tie atop the Section 4 standings
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Katelyn Vanderhoff wears a lot of hats for Lancaster Mennonite.
She’s the Blazers’ leading scorer.
She can make a mean pass in traffic.
She crashes the boards with authority.
She is arguably the best defender in the Lancaster-Lebanon League.
And Tuesday night against rival Lancaster Catholic, Vanderhoff added […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Andrews hits four 3-pointers, scores career-high 18 points in Pioneers’ win over Beavers
Caution: Flammable.
Remember last Friday night, when Lampeter-Strasburg sophomore guard Katie Andrews drilled a pair of fourth-quarter 3-pointers, including the go-ahead trey with under a minute to go in the Pioneers’ heart-stopping 55-54 win over Lancaster Mennonite?
She hasn’t cooled off yet.
Andrews picked […]

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 THANKS! That little ticker thing on the right over there just went over the 400,000-hit mark. I’m truly humbled and I appreciate it.
Two quick thoughts off the top …
* First, I posted something the other day about the Lancaster-Lebanon League Cancer Benefit Night, set for boys’ and girls’ basketball games on Jan. 13 and/or Jan. […]

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Another week, another edition of Reinhart’s Rankings …
Can’t believe we’re heading into Week 3 already … a couple of games on tap for Monday, and the last night of league play before the holiday break is on Tuesday – and those games will be the first head-to-head matchups in L-L League section play; more crossover […]

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